editor-in-chief @proteanmag / contributing writer @Truthout / a personal acct.
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This is the trouble with referring to this technology as "intelligence." It is not. It is basically just large-scale pattern recognition software aggregating what it's been fed. So you can make it regurgitate any old bullshit if it's what the Internet or its programming says.
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Honored to be included in this year’s shortlist from the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association.
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Towards a more serious reading of Palestinan literature
@LAReviewofBooks
lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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The grift is so transparent. Every one of these apocalyptic AI posts is written by a CEO trying to sell their shitty product.
This is the canary in the coal mine, y'all. The AI math doesn't math. Microsoft is offering buyouts for nearly a quarter of it's workforce.
AI adoption for businesses is a 24-month journey in a perfect scenario. They aren't seeing adoption fast enough to offset their CapEx spending... and they aren't alone. Add Anthropic's measly revenue numbers (compared to their CapEx), and hopefully you get the point.
These aren't buyouts because Microsoft found efficiencies with AI, they are buyouts because they (the AI industry) spend trillions (collectively) building the best tools the world has ever seen, and no one knows how to use them. digitalmeld.io/blog/who-is-p…
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DON'T: read another weepy conversation w/ Michael Walzer where he belatedly admits to being wrong while also doubling down on being wrong
DO: Read this piece by me & @shaabiranks from 2023 where we critique Walzer/Just War Theory & the law of war re: Gaza
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“‘This is a story about resilience, and hope,’ affirms Pawel. The UC Regents, battered from the right for being too woke and from the left for collaborating with Trumpism, will breathe a sigh of relief when they (or their PR departments) read this book."
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our intrepid associate editor @jake_romm was on @hasanthehun stream discussing his work with the @HindRFoundation:
Hasan Piker's full interview with Jake Romm from the Hind Rajab Foundation:
What is the Hind Rajab Foundation? (1:05-7:05)
Has it gotten more difficult to catch these war criminals in the act? Why do they post their war crimes anyway? (7:20-10:16)
Hind Rajab’s alleged killer is walking free in the United States??? What kind of investigation did y'all conduct? Is there evidence? (10:30-21:05)
What about getting Bibi prosecuted? (21:06-25:20)
ISRAEL TINY NATION! (25:30-29:00)
The Western World's culpability (29:10-34:45)
Jake's parting words and Hasan's reflection on their conversation (34:46-37:21)
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Tony Platt reviews the new book by Miriam Pawel, “California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California.” Pawel’s focus on a few alumni, he writes, elides both radical traditions and unethical practices inextricable from UC history.
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The Atlantic, supposed beacon of free speech and liberal principles, has published 30+ articles on Hasan Piker and zero about Israel’s unprecedented killing of 230+ journalists in Gaza. Some are saying it’s because it’s run by a former volunteer IDF prison guard but who’s to say
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ISSUE VI COVER REVEAL - SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON - WORLD COMMUNISM NOW - I LOVE YOU
We’re pleased to reveal the cover and theme of our newest lovingly crafted print edition:
Protean Issue VI: Detritivores.
Featuring essays and poetry by Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad), Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell), Bayan Haddad, Fargo Tbakhi (@YouKnowFargo), and many more.
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this issue is going to be really special. subscribe to protean today to get the goods, now and forever: patreon.com/join/proteanmag
We’re pleased to reveal the cover and theme of our newest lovingly crafted print edition:
Protean Issue VI: Detritivores.
Featuring essays and poetry by Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad), Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell), Bayan Haddad, Fargo Tbakhi (@YouKnowFargo), and many more.
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SUBSCRIBE NOW TO PREORDER THIS BANGER NEW ISSUE AND ALSO TO RECEIVE OTHER TREASURES AS WELL
We’re pleased to reveal the cover and theme of our newest lovingly crafted print edition:
Protean Issue VI: Detritivores.
Featuring essays and poetry by Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad), Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell), Bayan Haddad, Fargo Tbakhi (@YouKnowFargo), and many more.
tyler retweeted
We’re pleased to reveal the cover and theme of our newest lovingly crafted print edition:
Protean Issue VI: Detritivores.
Featuring essays and poetry by Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad), Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell), Bayan Haddad, Fargo Tbakhi (@YouKnowFargo), and many more.
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once again, there is no need to indulge Roko's Basilisk discourse about AI safety from Berkeley polycules when any Palestinian will tell you what unsafe AI looks like *right now*
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.” apnews.com/article/gaza-chil…
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Mehdi I promise I would never—even in jest—refer to you as a savvy politics understander
I’m losing my mind at these arguments.
Is the argument not to protest or criticize Mamdani? Or call for disbanding the SRG?
NO!
The argument is that it is dumb and dishonest and offensive to scream that he is complicit in a genocide at a vigil, and to claim he supports killing kids.
The strawmenners are out in force today.
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I reviewed Content Machines by @brouillettese for Defector. It's a book we've been needing, out this month.
defector.com/content-machine…
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this is a truly bizarre review, written with clear ideological motive but totally unwilling to spell it out
NAZA, a provocative Israeli documentary, should make viewers think about their own moral parameters—instead, it distances them from the war in Gaza, @GalBeckerman writes. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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"Moby Dick" is not just the great American novel. It's also the best TV show of the 21st century.
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made a small, perhaps even presumptuous website about my fiction sieglinde.net
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“As an art critic, [Berger] had a unique ability to describe the great paintings of the past in a way which made his readers feel the canon belonged to them, that it was theirs to do what they wanted with.”
– Tom Overton
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